Anonymous wrote:Never have thought to tip. Housekeeping is built in the price of the room. Tipping in this country is out of control.
Anonymous wrote:Wow all you folks who don’t tip housekeepers are cold blooded!
They are usually women and make minimum wage. The job is hard. I am happy to tip $5/night (when solo on business travel) and go up to $10 when it’s a family stay in a suite or something.
Also, work with folks who are in the hotel biz (I am in CRE) and all the hotel folks tip.
Terrible karma not to
Anonymous wrote:While i agreed that tipping is out of control lately, hotel housekeeping has always been a place where it’s expected (just like sit-down restaurants). I usually leave $5 per cleaning or $5-10 at the end of the stay if we don’t use housekeeping. Nobody hesitates to give bellhops (usually men) a tip for 5 minutes of work but the question tipping housekeeping (usually women), with each room taking 20-30 minutes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I always tip although the amount varies wildly based on what cash I have available. I use cash so rarely these days. Sometimes I’ve thought to get a few hundred in $5 bills and stash them in my suitcase but then when I run out it takes awhile before I remember to do it again.
Generally I thinking tipping hotel housekeepers well is a way to get money to low income working women who have a largely invisible job.[/[b]quote]
This is why I tip $5 a night.
Same here. $5/day.